"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

The Boston American received, published this letter:

"I never heard of any proposal that I should be president of New York University until I received your wire.

"If your newspaper men would state each time that my name is proposed for some position that there is no foundation for the report you would always be right, and it would save me no end of trouble and correspondence.

"Calvin Coolidge"

Betty Gow, nurse of the late Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., returned from Glasgow to become nurse of recently christened Jon Morrow Lindbergh, aged 2 1/2 mo.

Said Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley in Kansas City, after averaging 3,000 mi. a week in four weeks of campaign touring by air: "The only real danger I have seen so far in flying is to drive into the city from the airport by motor car. I was scared to death the other day when a car carrying me into Chicago skidded and turned completely around.''

A fourth operation restored sight to Sir James George Frazer, 78, famed British anthropologist, author of The Golden Bough.

Overfatigued by preparations for the production of his play The Dark Hours, Donald Robert Perry (Don) Marquis, 54, was stricken totally blind in Manhattan's Players Club, after three days was sufficiently recovered to be able to distinguish colors.

Gleefully The New Yorker revealed that New York City's Department of Taxes & Assessments had sent notice of a $15,000 personal property assessment to Eustace Tilley, name of the magazine's genteel symbolic figure in topper and cutaway, which the editors keep listed in Manhattan's telephone directory "as a jape and a convenience." Deputy George W. Adee of the Department's Manhattan office admitted the personal tax list is compiled from the telephone book, Blue Book, Social Register, etc., etc. Said he: "We take whoever we think is a good prospect."

Thomas Hitchcock Jr., only remaining 10-goal player in polo, named an all-time polo team, "based only on players I have seen": No. 1, Eric Pedley; No. 2. Capt. Leslie Cheape; No. 3, Capt. C. T. I. ("Pat") Roark; back, Devereux Milburn. Said he: "Pedley is the greatest one of them all." None of these players was present last week in Buenos Aires for the Argentine open championship, where a team from Meadow Brook last week got into the semifinals--Michael Phipps, Winston Guest, Elmer Boeseke, William Post. Between chukkers of one game, peons had to sweep hordes of locusts off the field.

Day before his 82nd birthday in Ridgefield, Conn., Dr. William Stephen Rainsford, oldtime (1882-1906) rector of Manhattan's St. George's Church (the elder J. P. Morgan's) lifelong big-game hunter (he arranged Theodore Roosevelt's African trip), went pheasant hunting, fell off a wall, bruised his leg severely. Complained he: "To think that I should get laid up hunting pheasants when I've shot 22 lions without getting a scratch or a bump."

James Simpson, chairman of the "Insull" operating companies (Commonwealth Edison Co., Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., Public Service Co. of. Northern Illinois), presented to the Emergency Welfare Fund the salary he will receive from the date he took office (June 6) through Dec. 31. Amount: $98,587.70.

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